A Sampling of Clips for 
March 02, 2005

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New Clues to Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Atlanta Journal Constitution, March 2-UCSD doctors believe they've discovered a potential new treatment for painful inflammatory bowel disease, which is caused by inflammation of the intestines. (Quote by study author Dr. Eyal Raz, a professor of medicine at UCSD.) More

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Innovations Report, March 2
Health Central, March 2

Science of Sleep
NBC Channel 4, Los Angeles, March 1-Seventy million people have sleep problems of one sort or another. Research on the science of sleep is providing new and different answers. (Quote by UCSD sleep researcher, Daniel Kripke.) More

Three Schools Approved for Charter Status
NBC San Diego, March 1-The San Diego Schools Board of Education approved proposals to convert three schools into charter schools and continue the charter status of a fourth Tuesday night. Gompers Middle School in Chollas View and King/Chavez Elementary School in Stockton will be given charter status and receive support from UCSD. More

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San Diego Union-Tribune, March 2
Voice of San Diego, March 2

British honor UCSD's Burbidges
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 2-The Royal Astronomical Society in England has awarded a husband-wife team of astronomers at UCSD its highest honor, the Gold Medal, for their contributions to astronomy during more than half a century. More

Kyoto Prize Winners to Speak at Symposium
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 2-A computer scientist, a cancer researcher and a philosopher devoted to ending violence and oppression will speak in San Diego this week about their work at the fourth annual Kyoto Laureate Symposium. Alfred George Knudson, a pioneer in understanding the genetics of cancer, will lecture tomorrow from 4:30 to 6 p.m. in the Price Center Theater at UCSD. More

UCSD will be Part of U.S. Study
of Colon Cancer Screening Tools
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 2-UCSD will soon recruit participants for a nationwide clinical trial to determine if "virtual colonography" - a 3-D examination of the colon - can find as many precancerous polyps as traditional colonoscopy, a more invasive, risky and costly procedure. (Quote by Dr. Giovanna Casola, director of UCSD's radiology fellowship program.) More

Recurring Patterns Equal a Wet Season
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 2-What a difference a year makes. "This is a great example of the variability of precipitation in California," said Dan Cayan, director of the Climate Research Division of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD. "California is probably the most volatile of any region in the country, except maybe the desert Southwest." More

Local Doctors, Patients Weigh in on Painkiller Debate
North County Times, March 1-Many local arthritis sufferers say they aren't listening to a Food and Drug Administration panel that wants to restrict popular painkillers such as Celebrex and Vioxx because of increased risk for heart problems. They're listening to their pain instead. (Quote by Dr. Arthur Kavnaugh, a rheumatologist at UCSD Medical Center.) More